New Delhi: The 14 youngsters arrested in the Juhu molestation case were released on bail on Wednesday. Addressing the media on their release from the Arthur Road Jail , the accused claimed they have been framed in the case.
They even pieced together some evidence in their defense. They claimed they were just curious onlookers and became victims because of being photographed in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“We were coming from Juhu. There was a huge crowd and we just went a little ahead to see and the cameraman clicked us. We could not see anything since there was such a big crowd,” says one of the accused in the case.
The Mumbai police had arrested 14 persons in connection with the sexual harassment of two NRI women in the Juhu area on Monday night.
While four have been held on molestation charges, the others have been arrested on unlawful assemble charges, said Joint Commissioner K L Prasad.
The police cracked the New Year's eve molestation case last week after two of the accused surrendered to the police at different police stations.
Recounting the horror, one of the victims told CNN-IBN: "We came out of JW Marriot and were crossing the street. It all started when we had just about crossed the divider."
"Initially I didn’t make a big deal about it – I thought they were people just trying to harass us. But my cousin did not appreciate it. My goal was to get into an autorickshaw or a taxi, but more people started gathering."
"My brother and my husband did everything possible to push the people away. My clothes weren’t ripped and I wasn’t raped — we were just harassed. Then a nice gentleman came and put us in a police car and took us to the police station."
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